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Opened in summer 2021, Catch is based in Weymouth’s historic Old Fish Market, at the heart of the local fishing community. The restaurant focuses on sustainability - see also Hatch on the Harbour.

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Summary

£100
£££££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“The very best meal I have enjoyed in the last year!”… “Exceptional” – chef Mike Naidoo’s sustainable seafood restaurant on a mezzanine in the waterside Old Fish Market has proved a “brilliant addition to the Weymouth food scene” since it opened three years ago. The “exceptional” dayboat catch is translated into set menus, with the £45 four-course lunch itself a particularly good catch from the (slightly bewildering) array of menus, with different options served early evening, midweek dinner (six courses) and Saturday dinner (eight courses). One visitor in particular went a bundle on it this year, in the shape of The Times’s Giles Coren who, in his March 2024 review – “reeling from the quality” – thought it might just be “the best restaurant in the world”… “omigodomigodomigod”.

Summary

£91
 ££££
4
Very Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

In the exciting setting of the 1855 fish market, this two-year-old sustainable seafood specialist delivers “an earnest love letter to seafood and the fishermen who provide it” (as The Independent’s Kate Ng put it), with dishes changing to accommodate the catch even between customers – an “extraordinary way to run a restaurant” but one that “really works”. “It’s only a no-choice tasting menu” these days, which may not be to all tastes, but the results are “inventive” and “very reasonably priced for the quality”.

Summary

£87
 ££££
4
Very Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

This “interesting” yearling serves “fantastic seafood” in the “authentic surroundings” of the 1855 fish market, refurbished in minimalist style to host a restaurant serving fish landed directly from day boats based in the harbour. There’s a heavy emphasis on sustainability, with the dishes complemented by English wines from the region. Top Tip – “wear a scarf – it’s a tad chilly inside”.

Summary

£55
   ££
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Opened in summer 2021 (too late for survey feedback) in Weymouth’s historic Old Fish Market, at the heart of the local fishing community, the restaurant focuses on a ‘sea-to-plate’ policy of sustainability, and looks promising.

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1 Custom House Quay, Weymouth, DT4 8BE

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Catch at The Old Fish Market Restaurant Diner Reviews

Reviews of Catch at The Old Fish Market Restaurant in DT4, Weymouth by users of Hardens.com. Also see the editors review of Catch at The Old Fish Market restaurant.
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Following the enthusiastic Coren review-"po...
Reviewed 6 months,

"Following the enthusiastic Coren review-"possibly the best..in the world", this was our third visit. Set lunch menu with perhaps 6 courses: the focus is on...fish. Small, beautifully presented plates. Wine list with quite a wide range. Upstairs dining area is slightly cramped. Service informed and pleasant. Prices were about to increase"

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What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Times

“Oh my God! Omigodomigodomigod – as the girls outside my daughter’s school squeal when they run up to their friends to show them something mundane on TikTok…” gushed Giles Coren from the train home from Weymouth – “I think I just went to the best restaurant in the world.”

Chef Mike Naidoo’s sustainable fish restaurant, upstairs from a fishmonger’s shop in the Old Fish Market on Weymouth’s quay, had just given him, he said, “one of the happiest working afternoons of my life”.
And it wasn’t just the day-boat fresh fish and seafood that was so special. The “warm, golden brioche” served alongside it was possibly even better. “I’ve never seen bread this good. I’m almost angry. Who has done this?”

Mike’s wife, as it turns out: Tija, from Slovenia, whose pastry also left Giles “reeling at the quality”. All in all, then, a “dreamy” experience – and one not to be missed at £40 for a four-course set menu.

Giles Coren - 2024-03-18

Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Lunch   £40.00
Dinner   £70.00

Traditional European menu

Veggies Pudding
£0.00 £0.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £30.00
Filter Coffee £6.00
Extras  
Bread £0.00
Service 10.00%
1 Custom House Quay, Weymouth, DT4 8BE
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
Tuesday6 pm‑9 pm
Wednesday6 pm‑9 pm
Thursday12:30 pm‑1:30 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
Friday12:30 pm‑1:30 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
Saturday12:30 pm‑1:30 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
SundayCLOSED

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